"You are trying to get people to conform to certain behavior, to resocialize them."

It is intended to resocialize, reform, and rehabilitate offenders.

"It's very much an effort to socialize or resocialize people," said Robert Gangi, the executive director of the Correctional Association of New York, which monitors prison systems.

When Pete began her formal education, she came under a federally mandated system designed to resocialize Native Americans in a way that would better incorporate them into the broader culture of the nation.

Then another panel of outside experts recommended that the eight monkeys be euthanized because of "progressive and continuous deterioration" during five years of legal dispute and because attempts to resocialize them with normal monkeys would place them at "high risk for additional pain, discomfort, trauma and possible death."

Learning to 'Resocialize' In accordance with the program's intention, he has now been drawn so deeply into life at the treatment center where he lives at 1851 Phelan Place in the Bronx, that few of his thoughts are focused on events in the outside world and few of his goals are centered on his return.